Our trip has gone fast. There is so much to see, so much left unseen that we hope to come back to. But traveling as a student in hostels, on bread and cheese is wearing. We’re dirty (10 days between hot water) and tired. We are getting ready to wind this trip up. We feel like we’ve learned a lot about the world and its people but most of all, we see that even in new modern Europe, we, in America, are really lucky with life and what we’ve got. Comparing American prices to incomes and European prices to incomes, we are well off. Europe is simply not cheap for the Europeans. There is a relatively small upper class and a very large lower class. Being a middle class American is being born under and lucky star.
Click to enlarge map We left Nice day before yesterday, picked up the luggage at American Express and headed north to Orleans. We had met some boys in Barcelona who were stationed at Orleans and they promised us a steak dinner if we’d come visit them. We planned to stop at Cannes and Lyon on the way. And we had to spend one afternoon sitting in a garage in Avignon, France getting the clutch adjusted.
Our trip has gone fast. There is so much to see, so much left unseen that we hope to come back to. But traveling as a student in hostels, on bread and cheese is wearing. We’re dirty (10 days between hot water) and tired. We are getting ready to wind this trip up. We feel like we’ve learned a lot about the world and its people but most of all, we see that even in new modern Europe, we, in America, are really lucky with life and what we’ve got. Comparing American prices to incomes and European prices to incomes, we are well off. Europe is simply not cheap for the Europeans. There is a relatively small upper class and a very large lower class. Being a middle class American is being born under and lucky star.
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